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The title of the paper, incidentally, is borrowed from the third volume of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy, Parade’s Endy comprising Some Do Not… (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and Last Post (1928).
A Man Could Stand Up— opens on Armistice Day, with Valentine Wannop learning that her love, Christopher Tietjens, has returned to London from the front. As she prepares to meet him, the narrative suddenly shifts time and place to earlier in the year, with Tietjens commanding a group of soldiers in a trench somewhere in the war zone.
A Man Could Stand Up is the third novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded sequence of four novels known collectively as Parade's End. It chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I.
7 de jul. de 2023 · In "A Man Could Stand Up," the narrative delves into the post-war period and the societal changes that followed the end of the war. It explores the disintegration of traditional values, the shifting roles of men and women, and the disillusionment and uncertainty experienced by the characters.
13 de mai. de 2013 · Synopsis Slowly, amidst intolerable noises from, on the one hand, the street and, on the other, from the large and voluminously echoing playground, the depths of the telephone began, for Valentine, to assume an aspect that, years ago, it had used to have—of being a part of the supernatural paraphernalia of inscrutable Destiny.
"A Man Could Stand Up" is part three of Ford Maddox Ford's magnificent novel of the First World War. It may however be considered in some respects the climax of the novel. And for the patient reader to this point, the author will tell the story backwards and forwards, in train of thought.
3 de out. de 2022 · While 'A Man Could Stand Up' can be appreciated on its own, it will make far better sense to a listener or reader already familiar with its predecessors. It's at once a war story (the middle section is set in the trenches in France, in 1918), a story of immense upheaval in social mores, and a passionate, if extraordinarily restrained, love story.
